Posts Tagged ‘CCTLD’

.TK Becomes Third Largest ccTLD With A Little Help From Phishing

The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief noted that the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau’s ccTLD, .TK entered the top ten largest top level domain rankings as the seventh largest, moving ahead of .NL (Netherlands) which moved fro…

Innovating with New gTLDs

One of the primary purposes of the ICANN New generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program is to foster innovation in the DNS industry and the wider Internet. While having a desirable TLD string that users can relate to is a good starting point, gTLD applica…

Registry Service Provider Speed Dating

Two years ago, in 2008, I put together a session at the Paris ICANN meeting where I gathered new TLD applicants and service providers together in a room to meet each other. Afterward, I put together a survey and then collected the information in to a grid so that potential new TLD applicants could see [...]

Congratulations to Michele Neylon

Congratulations to Michele Neylon, who has won two categories this evening at the IIA Net Visionary Awards Irish Internet Association’s 2008 Net Visionary Awards. Michele won for both Best Business Blogger, and Online Marketing categories. CONGRATULATIONS, Michele! Tags: CCTLD Etc Etc Irish Internet Association linkedin Michele Neylon Michele Neylon Congratulations Online Marketing categories the IIA [...]

Just between .yu and .me…

The former Yugoslovia ccTLD has been designated for a 3 year sunset process, transitioning to .RS (Serbia) and .ME (Montenegro).   Following in the footsteps of the ccTLDs that have some generic appeal beyond simply that of the country (.TV, .MD, .FM/.AM, .CD, etc), there was some competition for the registry services with this recently introduced ccTLD. According [...]